Alpha (letter)
Alpha (
Greek ), (uppercase Α, lowercase α) is the first letter of the
Greek alphabet. In the system of
Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the
Phoenician letter Aleph . Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin
A and the Cyrillic letter
А.In both Classical Greek and Modern Greek, alpha represents the
Open front unrounded vowel, .
Plutarch in
Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet. Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a
Boeotian, thinks of
Cadmus, the
Phoenician who reputedly settled in
Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for
ox -- which, unlike
Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities. "Nothing at all" Plutarch replied. He then added that he would rather be assisted by Lamprias, his own grandfather, than by
Dionysus' grandfather, i.e. Cadmus. For Lamprias had said that the first articulate sound made is "alpha", because it is very plain and simple — the air coming off the mouth does not require any motion of the tongue — and therefore this is the first sound that children make.
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Alpha
Alpha (homonymie)
Cette page d’ répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Alpha peut faire référence à :
Alpha, une lettre de l'alphabet grec ;
Alpha, lettre additionnelle de l'alphabet latin ;Alpha, le mot redondant associé à la lettre A dans le code international de l'alphabet morse normalisé par l'
OACI ;Alpha, le mot pour désigner la lettre A dans l'
alphabet radio international (norme OTAN)
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Alpha
Alpha (Begriffsklärung)
Das Wort Alpha bezeichnet generell:den ersten Buchstaben des griechischen Alphabets, siehe
Alphaden ersten Buchstaben des ICAO-Alphabetsein Adjektiv, das die Rangordnung, Zählung oder Bedeutung einer Sache verdeutlicht, häufig das Korrelat zu
Omega
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Alfa
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Alfa (lettera)
La lettera alfa è la prima lettera dell'
alfabeto greco - antenata della lettera
A degli
alfabeti latini - e dell'
alfabeto cirillico.Nel sistema numerico dei Greci di
età ellenistica, era il segno usato per il numero 1. Era accompagnato, per distinguerlo dal segno alfabetico, da un apice in alto a destra (׳) per indicare l'unità semplice, da un apice in basso a sinistra per la migliaia (1.000), e da una dieresi per la decina di migliaia (10.000). Nei papiri si può trovare il numero anche con una lineetta orizzontale al di sopra della lettera.
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